The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-26
THE MANUFACTURERS:
FRESH NEws MOTHS FRoAt THEM.
What ia Going on In tho Nail, Steel, Gln,l
and other Local Induatries-Businsis
Booming In Nearly Every Branch Of
InduStry-Ths Freight blockade.
The Moundsville coke ovens are com.

The Mouudaville coke ovens are com.
pleted.
The Laughlin nail mill will resume next
Monday.
The forge department at the Etna mill
will resune In d few days.
The Benwood bias. furnace Is making
full timc and turning out lots Of pig.
The Bellairo nail works arc making big
shipments Of ateel to Cleveland this week.
The LaBelle factory was idle Thus.
day. The other departments did not shut
down.
Tho Bellaire nail works are making
large shipments Of MALTA to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
The Buckeye glaas works are ~epjoyinga
good steady run and turning ont lots Of
splendid ware.
The Standard mill Is filling extra large
orders oil heavy sheet iron thia fall, trade
being exceptionally good.
The Elson glasa works have beon enjoy.
ing a splendid trade all season, with good
prospects Tor q continuance.
The Laughlin nail works will reoume
operations in full in ev0ry department and
willrun steadily until the end OF the year.
Tho rainy weather has caused work on
the new electrical ntyest railway, tho
Eighteenth street water main and all other
street work to be suspended temporarily.
About $50 freight cars are sidetrsckcd
at Moundsville on account of the freight
blockade %hereabout. The freight offered
for shipment here 10 still in excesa Of tho
fa%clli.iea foI handling 1t.
Otto Walden, foreman OF the machine
department of the Nail City Lantern
Works, received this weck letters pstsnt
on q coffee pot Of his invention, which
will be manufactured hero.
F. Schenck &Son arc Strengthening large
numbers OF hogs ct their Fulton pork
packing establishment. One day this
week they killed $40, the largest number
ever buscheredin a local establishment in
one day.
The old bollsrs taken out Of the S,
George Paper Mill, W~ellsburg, have boon
sold to a Wheeling firm and are now be.
ing taken apart and will be ehipped here
to-day. They are Of but little use except
for old iron.
Mr.. George Givens struck a moderate
How OF natural gas this week in his new
well on the Lewis farm, near Wollsburg.
This lnsures the Riverside Glass Works q
sufficient supply for the coming winter,
and with tho new connection made by
tho Royal Gas Company from the Penn
, sylVania region, from whom the citizens
receive their supply, they have no reason
to complain, but now have sufficient Tor
all purposaB.
President Smith, Of the American Flint
} Glass Workera' Union, thinks that since
the unioashas withdrawn its notes of a
etrike on November 20, it 10 certainly an
| ill.adylsed step on the part OF tho manu-
facturers to forcs other matters to an issue
! ct this time. When this maniieato is pre-.
scented, tho matter will DO taken under
consideration by the executive officers OF
! the union, and in all probability o ION
terencs will be held upon the matters in
dispute, which will he nettled; and the
general public would be glad to Geo it.
Tho Benwood nail factory shut down
Monday, as the West Virginia Nat.
ural Gas Company informed tho man
uisclursra that they could not furn-
ieh them 3 sufficient supply Of gsa in
LIZ ony HNe. Ing ln5u Nc1e asked
to work ct night, and the majors held a
meeting and decided not to do 90, inform.
ing the company that some fuel 0hould be
used that could be relied upon. Tho en-
swer they got was "work at night or not
at al" and as the nsiiers have decided, it
! is probable tho factory will remain shu.
} down until the ahortsre Of gas is raned;ed
unless they reconsider their action o. tho
} company decides to rslurn to the uae Of
coal.
!; Furnace No. 2, of the Junction Iron
Works, which was romodeled and put in
; operation about one year sgo, 10 etill do
ing splerdidly, keeping up her average Of
l25 ton1 each "a hours. This is as
large Gnd as fine a blast furnace az there
is in Ohio Valley. Furnace No. l, which
: YVES remoaeled and built after the old pat
tern, some Two years ago, sni has only
blown n Arc, 10 at present being
remodoled, looking to tho erection Of q
furnscs similar to new No. 9 with all
> modern Improvements and appliances for
the manufacture OF Bsssemer pig. When
this furnace is completed with the n
J OF WhitTell stoves for hot blast purpoass,
tho facilities OF the Junction Iron Com
pany Tor the manufacture OF pig iron will
; be unexcelied in thin section 0 f.the coun-
try.-MiAgo Mews.